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(22)

Level

Intermediate

Updated

Aug 30, 2016

Duration

1h 50m

Description

In this course, What's New in Tableau 10, you will learn how to leverage all the new capabilities to connect to, prepare, analyze, and share the insights you found in your data. You will learn how to import data from cloud sources like google sheets, how to identify clusters of countries, and how to design dashboards for mobile devices. When you're finished with this course, you will have a foundational knowledge of Tableau 10 that will help you as you move forward to becoming a data master.

About the author

I work as a feedback mechanism for organizations and teams to help them understand what’s going on with their products and processes. I do this by collecting and organizing their data, visually exploring it, enriching it with other data and metrics, then presenting my findings using creative information design techniques. This leads to improved business performance and often sparks a data-driven culture throughout my clients organizations.

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Section Introduction Transcripts

Course OverviewHi everyone, this is Ben with bensullins. com, and welcome to my course, What's New in Tableau 10. I've been helping companies derive insights from their vast amounts of data since the late 90s, and today, the tools available are making this better and easier than ever before. Tableau software for data analytics has completely disrupted this industry over the past 5 or 6 years, and is now helping more companies than ever see and understand their data. That's why I'm so excited to guide you through all the new features in their latest version, Tableau 10. In this course, we're going to learn how to pull in data from cloud sources, like Google Sheets and QuickBooks Online, how to develop advanced clustering models of your data, how to design engaging, mobile-friendly dashboards that will work on any device, and how to share your insights on Tableau Server. When you're finished with this course, you'll have the foundational knowledge of Tableau 10 that will help you as you move forward to becoming a true data Jedi. I hope you'll join me on this journey to learn what's new in Tableau 10 in this course at Pluralsight.

User Interface UpdatesHi, this is Ben with bensullins. com, and welcome to this module, User Interface Updates. We've got three things to cover here in this module, we'll start by taking a look at the new user interface. Then we'll get into the dash-boarding options on mobile, and lastly I'll give you some options to find more information. Let's get started.

Preparing Your DataHi everyone, this is Ben with bensullins. com and welcome to this module, Preparing Your Data. First what we're going to do is take a look at how in Tableau 10 you can connect to data living in Google Sheets. Then we'll take that data we connected to and join it to another local file, using this new method of cross-database joins. We'll explore connecting the QuickBooks Online directly from Tableau, and I chose to highlight this one specifically because it is the most used small business accounting software here in the U. S. Next I'll show you how to combine multiple queries or datasets using what's known as a union query. This features was actually released in version 9. 3, but it's still relatively new so I wanted to cover it here as well. And lastly, I'll give you some links where you can go dig deeper, including a place to find a full list of new data connection options in Tableau 10. Let's get started.

Analyzing Your DataHi, this is Ben with bensullins. com, and welcome to this module, Analyzing Your Data. First we're going to take a look at customizing territories. Then we'll look at how to filter across data sources. We'll look at highlighting data with search, then we'll get into calculating radial distance, and lastly we'll talk about mapping new areas. Let's get started.

Advancing Your AnalyticsHi this is Ben with bensullins. com, and welcome to this module, Advancing Your Analytics. We're going to start by talking about this new feature in Tableau that allows us to create clusters. Then we'll get into a new type of calculation, known as a Level of Detail Calculation. Then we'll into this new feature where you can actually design mobile versions of your existing dashboards that respond differently based on the user's device. And lastly, I'll give you some additional places to find more information. Let's get started.

Sharing Your InsightsHi this is Ben with bensullins. com, and welcome to this module, Sharing Your Insights. We've got a lot to go on here, so we're going to start by publishing to the web, and how that's new in Tableau 10. Then we'll get into authoring on the web, which is a really new feature that's pretty awesome and really enabling great new ways of interacting with your data. Then we'll look at subscribing users to your views, how to analyze the usage of workbooks on your Tableau Server, and then lastly restoring previous versions. And of course, as I do in every module, I'll give you some links and things that you can dig in deeper to find more information about each one of these topics. Let's get started.